LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Seine Net Fishing Vessel Quest
JUNE. 10TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 11.30 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that they had been watching a vessel since 6 P.M.
She was under sail, but making little headway, and appeared to be flying a...
Guardsman
NOVEMBER 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Early in the afternoon the crew had assembled at the boathouse during an air raid alert. The weather was clear, the sea smooth. and a southerly wind was blowing.
A tug was...
Anna, of New York
Soon after midnight of the 29th January the night signals of dis- tress of a vessel on the North Sand End, Goodwin Sands, were observed. It was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time.
The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins...
A Touching Tribute
THE Institution has just received a most touching proof of devotion to the Life-boat Cause in the gift of two beautifully-dressed dolls, accompanied by the following note :— " To the Life-Boat Society.
"Miss finds...
Category: Donations
The shape of things to come
FCB2 is the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat, which is being developed to replace the Mersey class. As we reported last year, the hull proved inadequate in rough weather. A new hull shape has now been chosen, and the RNLI hopes the first...
Category: Articles
The Spanish Life-Boat Society
MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...
Category: Articles
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles
The Dinghies Shearwater, Fillister, Departure and another
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.35 P.M. on the 10th August a telephone message was received from the Hon.
George Colville, deputy chairman of the committee of management, directing the life-boat to proceed at once to a...
Provider (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing boat Provider left harbour at 5 A.M. on the 10th February.
Conditions were bad, and at eight o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and the sea was making...
Skylark
Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...